June 27, 2006

Had a good time on the program today reviewing comments made a number of years ago by Islamic lecturer and apologist Jamal Badawi regarding the alleged passages in the Bible that prophetically speak about Muhammad. I had been looking for his comments on Isaiah 9:6-7 for quite some time, and finally found them. Then we did a fun contest based

Above is the first half hour of the program. Following this discussion I moved back into a review of, and response to, both Diaa Mohamed and Bart Ehrman. A total of 90 minutes.

Started off with a few brief comments on the “ct/Michael Dries” discussion. A full melt-down is underway with this person, who now says she (yes, she) only the Dries name as a cover on the Puritan Board. In any case, took calls today on Islam and a more in-depth call on the topic of John 1:1 and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

   Spent the whole hour reviewing the next portion of the debate from 2002, looking for that elusive evidence of how “painfully obviously” the arguments against Rome’s position are unbiblical and incoherent.

   I have been informed that Matthew Bellisario will be calling the DL tomorrow to take me up on my challenge to actually address arguments I have made against Roman Catholicism in debate and published works (rather than attempting to twist comments about the mindset of post-World War II New Testament scholarship into arguments against Rome). Maybe something useful can come

Started off with Radio Free Geneva today, pressing forward with our review of Jerry Walls’ presentation against Calvinism. We got into the heart of his argument today. Not sure if I will do another on Thursday yet or not. Depends on what I run into during my study time in the darkness before sunrise in the morning! In any case,